China A clash or reconciliation of nationalisms across the Taiwan Strait? February 4, 2020 0 Image credit: 龜山島＋國旗 by Vincent Chien/Flickr; licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Zhidong Hao. Between 2002 and 2003, I was a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan…
China Taiwan’s January 2020 National Election: The View from One-Month Prior December 12, 2019 0 Image Credit: 08.19 總統出席2017年世界大學運動會開幕典禮，並起身向各國選手代表們揮手致意 by 總統府/Flickr, License: CC BY 2.0. Written by John F. Copper. On 11 January 2020 Taiwan will hold its quadrennial national…
Elections Will small parties change Taiwan’s political landscape in 2020? December 11, 2019 0 Image Credit: Photo by Prince Roy/Flickr, license CC BY 2.0. Written by Mark Weatherall and Kai-Ping Huang. As Taiwan enters the final month of campaigning…
Elections 2020 Perfect Vision: Taiwan’s Upcoming Presidential and Legislative Elections December 9, 2019 0 Image Credit: 第十四任總統、副總統宣誓就職 by 總統府/flickr, License: CC BY 2.0. Written by Gerrit van der Wees. In Spring 2019, the political future did not look very…
Elections An analysis of President Tsai’s victory in the presidential primary June 26, 2019 0 Written by Timothy S. Rich. Image Credit: Thierry Ehrmann/Flickr; Licence CC BY 2.0. On Thursday 13 June 2019 Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen won the Democratic Progressive Party’s…
China The lamb goes quietly to the slaughter February 18, 2019 2 Written by Linda Gail Arrigo. Recently, on 20 October 2018, diehard Taiwan Independence forces mustered by the chairman of Formosa TV, Kuo Pei-hung (郭倍宏), held…
China Declining Taiwanese identity? February 8, 2019 3 Written by T.Y. Wang. The results of Taiwan’s 2018 local elections shocked the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and came as a surprise to some.…
China Exploring the complex China-Taiwan relationship January 25, 2019 0 Written by Daouda Cissé. In November 2015, the meeting between Ma Ying-Jeou - then president of Taiwan and leader of the Kuomintang (KMT) - and…
China Xi Jinping’s Speech Fails to Deliver what the People of Taiwan Want January 21, 2019 0 Written by Bonnie S. Glaser. On January 2, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered his first speech focused exclusively on policy toward Taiwan. The occasion for…
Japan Contemporary Japan-Taiwan Relations in Historical Context July 13, 2018 0 Written by Robert Hoppens. Taiwan has recently become the focus of renewed international concern. The election of President Tsai Ying-wen of the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive…
